Corona Devotionals

My, my, (my!) how time flies. It seems just yesterday that we noticed a newly crafted nest on our front porch (artificial) tree. And then three blue eggs were suddenly sitting in the nest. But my, my, (my!) how time flies, because then: three tiny naked bodies with beaks began to be seen within the nest, and then (my, my, my) these little guys began to foster fuzzy feathers and my, my, (my!) how time flies---now they barely fit in the nest and their rapidly-growing little robin statures are fully-cloaked with full feather coats. Where does the time go? This robin life cycle has all occurred in only the last month, and yet today it is now time for these (recent!) babies to stand up, step out, and begin the natural progression of beginning to fly. But these members of the robin family are not the only ones that the Lord brings from birth to life...and into living-life (ups and downs both included!) as He has designed and planned-out for them. As His children--this is our progres...

Thud!....   Silence.   Thud!....   Silence.  What was  that, I wondered?   Thunder?  But the skies were clear.   The factory that backs up to our backyard?  ...Not this time. Thud!....   Silence.   There it was again and it was  coming from our backyard.   Wait a minute...I know that sound,  and I know that distance-interval in between those thuds. The  thud  was our middle child, Silas...kicking his soccer ball from about twenty yards out from our backyard goal.  The silence was Silas running to retrieve the kick from the back of the goal net or the side yard, and the next  thud was his next shot on goal.   Thud!....   Silence.   Thud!....   Silence.   Thud!....   Silence.     He stays out there shooting for hours.  He loves shooting a soccer ball.   He always has.  He is seventeen years old, and if...

I did really well today...almost all day.  I've been trying to eat a little healthier, and to cut out a few more sweets and to focus more on meals than (unhealthy) snacking.  And I was doing really well.   But then, for the low, low price of two dollars and twenty nine cents, I fell to temptation. Sweet, salty, vanilla-drizzled temptation in the form of flavored kettle corn. When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone...  ~James 1:13  If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.  ~James 4:17 You would think that if I was going to fall, it would be for a higher dollar-value item, but the sweet vanilla flavored kettle corn for $2.29 is what tempted me out of responsible eating, and what got me into gluttony. Okay, so "gluttony" may be a bit forceful, because I haven't eaten the whole bag... yet .  But I still have a lot of night left, an...

Seventeen years ago, my husband felt led by the Lord to step away from his current job (and corrupted boss) and to start his own company.  I was staying at home to raise our children, (ages three and one), and our third child was on the way. The realities of groceries, insurance, home, and life were as real and blatant to us as to any young family, but heard the Lord's call and we obeyed it.  My husband left a position of stability, security, and even surplus--to walk away and to walk in the ways of the Lord. Blessed is the one  who does not walk in step with the wicked  or stand in the way that sinners take  or sit in the company of mockers, (2)  but whose delight is in the law of the Lord ,  and who meditates on his law day and night. (3)  That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,  which yields its fruit in season  and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers.  ~ Psalm 1:1-3   It was God's idea to...

Keep praying to the Lord today.    Have we any idea how very precious our prayers are to our Lord?   So precious. What have we been praying about lately?  Keep it up.   Keep asking earnestly and praying with reckless abandon and submitting our requests to God.   He hears them. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. (7) And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.  ~Philippians 4:6-7 Our God is blessed by our prayer submissions to Him.  Did we know that He considers our prayers a form of worship to Him?...  An honoring  of His Name and of Him.   It's true.  Brothers and Sisters in Christ: keep praying .  Keep getting quiet before the Lord--in our prayer closet, in our car, knelt at night by our beds, over a morning mug of coffee or tea, at ...